The Elephant Man
(2024)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Independently Published, 2024
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (49 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9798875142390 MWT16998485, 16998485
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Edward E. French
This is a story in Victorian England of how in 1884 Frederick Treves, Surgeon and Lecturer in Anatomy at the London Hospital arranged for the "Elephant Man" (whose distorted grotesque face and deformed body made him a "freak") to visit the medical college next to the hospital for the purpose of a lecture. They would later become friends and Treves the savior of the man named John Merrick. This is Treves' memoir
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